We Have a Winner!

America’s Weird and Wonderful Races, Derbies, Pageants, and Eating Contests

Book Description

Celebrate America’s outrageous competitive fire

  • 100 years of “see it to believe it” American contests
  • Includes dozens of mind-blowing, little-known competitions
  • Gorgeous design with 150 color and black-and-white photographs, plus sidebars

From marathon dancing, to food eating contests, beauty pageants, pole sitting, rotten sneaker contests, animal calling contests, phone-booth stuffing, outhouse races, and more, Americans love competing to see who can do anything better than anyone else. We Have a Winner! is a visually stunning tour, from coast to coast, through our often whacky, uniquely themed contests. Covering more than a century’s worth of competition, and packed with photos and fascinating sidebars, this book shows how the American competitive spirit—as wacky as it sometimes is—mirrors American trends, innovation, and news.

About Savage, Railey Jane

Railey Jane Savage is an editor and artist and television enthusiast. She has a strong background in lm studies and an expensive English degree from Smith College, which has proven 100% worth the time, money, and agony that comes with a liberal arts degree. Savage loves her family, expects her sisters to take over the world, and lives happily with two ill-behaved cats in Ithaca, New York.

Also Recommended

Wicked Weird & Wily Yankees Gencarella, Stephen
Price: $17.95
Boston Icons Scheff, Jonathan
Price: $16.95
Lost in the Wilderness Motavalli, Jim
Price: $19.95
McCarthy, Tom
Price: $19.95
Great American Shipwreck Stories McCarthy, Tom
Price: $16.00
Helferich, Gerard
Price: $26.95

WHAT WE PUBLISH!